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"Shouldn't think o' doing," answered the clothier. "Come, you know the sort as 'ill serve me. Shilling a yard at best. If you've any at eightpence " "Haven't." "Well, then I reckon I must go a bit higher." "We've as good a kersey at elevenpence," broke in Mrs Clere, "as you'd wish to see, Alice Mount, of a summer day.
'If you come-to before daylight, thought the sergeant, 'I shall be surprised for one. From the various pockets of the slumbering carrier he gently collected the sum of seventeen shillings and eightpence sterling; and, getting once more into the cart, drove thoughtfully away. 'If I was exactly sure of where I was, it would be a good job, he reflected. 'Anyway, here's a corner.
We have both to live together on seventeen pounds. That is she made a computation on a piece of paper 'that is two pounds, sixteen shillings and eightpence a month let us suppose this month at an end. That represents fourteen shillings and twopence a week. Yes, we can do it! She laid down her pencil with an air of triumph.
In the twelve years from 1551 to 1562, although once before harvest wheat rose to the extraordinary price of forty-five shillings a quarter, it fell immediately after to five shillings and four. Six and eightpence continued to be considered in parliament as the average; and on the whole it seems to have been maintained for that time with little variation.
His terrific thought was, "Good luck have thee with thine honour; ride on ... and thy right hand shall show thee terrible things." He burst into the house and discharged the torrent of his elation on to Mabel. "I say, I'm in the Army. They've passed me. Look here! Look at my Derby armlet! And look at this. That's my pay! Just look, Mabel two and eightpence."
'Why, says he, 'old Mother Baubo, that keeps the shop in my district at home, would charge me eight shillings for that turbot, four-and-six for that, eightpence for each of those sixty haddocks, and nobody knows what for the rest. Now, I've thought of that gentleman and his screech many a time since, and when I felt the light a-comin' to my eyes here, I thought again.
It cost me three shillings and eightpence, good honest coin of the last reign, that old Harry that's just dead ne'er touched or tampered with. A fig for thy eightpence!" "Stands the wind in that quarter? Thou wast under oath, and so swore falsely when thou saidst the value was but eightpence. Come straightway back with me before his worship, and answer for the crime! and then the lad will hang."
"Don't be a fool, Jasper. It is difficult, I know, to perish with dignity on sixteen and eightpence halfpenny: the odd coppers spoil the effect. Still we might bestow them on a less squeamish beggar and redeem our pride." "Tom," I said, suddenly, "you lost a lot of money once over rouge-et-noir." "Don't remind me of that, Jasper." "No, no; but where did you lose it?"
'The appraiser valued them at four hundred and thirty-five pounds three and sixpence when father died. We have added to them since, but we will reckon them at that. How much does that make with the value of the stock? 'Two thousand one hundred and seventy-six pounds, sixteen shillings and eightpence, said Philip.
In the event of your contemplating an offer of eightpence, on no account make the tender, or show the money, until you are safely on the pavement. It is very bad policy attempting to save the fourpence. You are very much in the power of a cabman, and he considers it a kind of fee not to do you any wilful damage.
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